Creative Director

Creative Director

Bill served as an editorial director, creative director, and director of R&D. While the exact role varied slightly from company to company, it usually centered on managing and guiding creative staff, and developing the creative strategy and product plans for a variety of roleplaying, board game, and novel lines.

Directed the game designers, game developers, game editors, and novel editors, on staff and freelance, to produce the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying games, board games, miniatures, magazines, and novels; as well as the Star Wars roleplaying games and miniatures; and various smaller lines as applicable.

Developed the product plans and design strategies for D&D roleplaying, board games, miniatures, and novels.

Developed the product plans and design strategies for Star Wars roleplaying and miniatures.

Developed the product plans and design strategies for a variety of supplementary lines including d20 Modern, Marvel Superheroes, Pokémon Jr., Gamma World, Alternity, and others.

Successfully executed the launches of D&D 3rd Edition and D&D 4th Edition, the Eberron Campaign Setting, the Star Wars Roleplaying Game and Miniatures Game, the D&D Miniatures Game, among others.

Worked with licensed partners to develop complimentary strategies and to approve the creative aspects of their products, including BioWare, Atari, Turbine, IDW, and others.

Alternity Creative Director, TSR, Inc., 1996-1997

Directed the game designers, game developers, and game editors to produce the Alternity Science Fiction Roleplaying Game.

Successfully executed the launch of the Alternity Science Fiction Roleplaying Game and ancillary products.

Creative Director/Editorial Director, West End Games, Inc., 1986-1990

Directed the game designers, game developers, and game editors, on staff and freelance, to produce the Star Wars, Ghostbusters, Paranoia, and Torg roleplaying game lines.

Developed product plans and design strategies for each line.

Successfully created, developed, and launched Torg: Roleplaying the Possibility Wars games and novels.

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Bill Slavicsek writes, edits, and designs and develops games. He has designed award-winning roleplaying games and board games, created worlds and intellectual properties, written novels and computer games, and provided creative direction for such brands as Dungeons & Dragons and Star Wars.